Dark Laughter has been dramatized twice—in an NBC theatrical adaptation and in a sound recording by Metacom (1983). Anderson always wanted to make Dark Laughter into a play to parallel the success of an adaptation of The Triumph of the Egg (1921, which was performed as a play twenty-two times as a curtain-raiser for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Different by the Provinc etown Playhouse in New York), but nothing came of his efforts.